Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 29

Finally, however, a sufficiently large tract of ground was turned up, and sown with this new kind of seed; although half of the dragon's teeth still remained to be planted some other day.

Who acts: half · What happens: turn up, sow, remain, plant · To what, where: large tract

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finally	finally	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finally	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tract	det
6	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	7 large	advmod
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tract	amod
8	tract	tract	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ground	case
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tract	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux:pass
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 turned	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sown	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sown	cc
16	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 turned	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 kind	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 kind	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kind	amod
20	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sown	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 seed	case
22	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kind	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 remained	punct
24	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 remained	mark
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	32 remained	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 teeth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dragon	det
28	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 teeth	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 dragon	case
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 half	nmod
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 remained	advmod
32	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sown	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 planted	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 planted	aux:pass
35	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 remained	xcomp
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 day	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 day	amod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 planted	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past · passive		a large tract of ground		finally, however property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	sow	participle				with this new kind of seed	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with kind=Theme
3	remain	past	half of the dragon's teeth		still		tree rules
4	plant	to-infinitive · passive	half of the dragon's teeth not said here		day		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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